Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] and [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you weave half way across a row and stop and take off the sinker plate , you 'll see the weaving yarn weaving up and down over the needles . |
| 2 | The top stitches coil back and forth over the back stitches , see above right . |
| 3 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 4 | In my home in Wales last week , I paced back and forth over the flagstones , my aerial before me , like a dowser looking for water . |
| 5 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 6 | As we had hoped , swallows , house martins and sand martins zipped back and forth over the lake , fly-catching , or skimming low to sip , their beaks cutting a line across the still surface of the water . |
| 7 | She thumbed the pages quickly , her eyes running up and down over the print . |
| 8 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 9 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 10 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 11 | The seagulls wheeled off and up over the harbour . |
| 12 | He stood by the door , listening for movement , and again heard the slow footsteps , pacing back and forth over the carpet . |
| 13 | When she looked up she could see the bees shooting up and away over the wall , and by each hive there was a continual coming and going of bees , some of whose pouches were brilliant with golden pollen . |
| 14 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 15 | With the saw blade set at 15° the jig locates in the mitre fence slots of the saw table , sliding back and forth over the blade . |
| 16 | Birds sewed back and forth over the line . |